Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera now available for pre-order – A new era for Apple spatial video?
If you're a filmmaker, content creator, or tech enthusiast, there's big news in the pro video world today. Blackmagic Design has officially started taking pre-orders for its new URSA Cine Immersive Camera—a game-changing piece of gear specifically designed for Apple Immersive Video and the Apple Vision Pro.
Priced at $29,995...
Trendspotting: Blazar announces “world’s first ever autofocus anamorphic lens”
There's been a lot of innovation in the cinema camera and lens space in the last few years. Especially as it relates to lower cost camera bodies -- RED, Blackmagic, Sony, Panasonic -- with features historically found on pricey models.
Now there's some news to keep an eye on in...
Fujifilm announces plan to launch first cinema camera in 2025
We're not seeing many new cameras in the cinema world -- most these days it seems are aimed at content creators, YouTubers and social media climbers.
Today Fujifilm bucked that trend. In a short announcement on its site, the famed Japanese camera maker revealed it had plans to launch a...
Is the Fujifilm X-M5 the best compact camera for vloggers?
While the dedicated ILE camera market may be slowing, the specs sure aren't.
Case in point: the new Fujifilm X-M5.
For just $799.95 USD you get a whopping bunch of power in a compact camera body that carries all the hallmark Fujifilm design qualities -- which is to say, it's built...
Trendspotting: Mirrorless camera sales up, DSLR down (Report)
Another report, another not so surprising result.
Via Digital Camera World, sales data for August 2024 has been released by trade body CIPA (Camera Imaging Products Association) which show that the decline in DSLR camera bodies continues.
In aggregate about 750,000 cameras were shipped during the month with the breakdown as...
Trendspotting: Canon, followed by the rest (digital camera market share 2024)
Now that 2024 is quickly approaching the final quarter, it's a good time to take stock of the digital camera market share. Where do things stand as of September?
Per PetaPixel, the top five camera players look like this, in order of share:
Canon 46.5%
Sony 27.9%
Nikon 11.3%
Fujifilm...
Blackmagic PYXIS 6K cinema camera now makes sense, thanks to new accessory
The price was right. The box style design was right. And the 6K sensor was right.
But that built-in monitor on the left side without a hinge or any sort of articulation? That most certainly didn't feel right.
Which is why the new purpose-built monitor Blackmagic Design recently announced for the...
In Cameras: New Canon EOS C80 is a compact 6K Full-Frame cinema camera that might tempt Sony shooters
Well, well, well. Canon seems to be on quite the roll lately. If you were looking to buy an affordable new cinema camera or upgrade an existing one it will be hard not to at least consider the ever expanding Canon Cinema range.
The latest example: the new Canon EOS...
Trendspotting: Signs of recovery in the interchangeable lens camera market
Two bits of camera market news this morning. If even just itty bitty bits. These days we'll take what we can with the smartphone -- iPhone! -- garnering most of the mindshare in recent years.
Nikon president Yoshiaki Tokunari was quoted in a Yahoo Japan article where he (ever so)...
As a Canon EOS R5 shooter, is it time to upgrade to the new Mark II?
To upgrade or not to upgrade?
The eternal question us video shooters and camera enthusiasts ask ourselves every so often (too often).
Now with the shiny new Canon EOS R5 Mark II on the scene many of us original R5 owners are probably wondering if it's worth the upgrade to the...